A war that does not seem close to ending… Between Michel Fugain and Benjamin Biolay, the rag is burning. And, this, since 2008. At the time, the first violently tackled the second, qualifying the singers of the “young generation” of “little jerks” and of “worst generation”. But it’s really in November 2022, in an interview with South Info that war has really been declared. When the ex-member of the Big Bazaar when he referred to his junior in the profession.
“It doesn’t speak to me! I don’t know what it’s for”, he confided when he mentioned Benjamin Biolay. The latter was quick to answer him and in particular to let go:“I don’t like what you’re doing either Mr. Michel Fugain, but I don’t feel obliged to harass you through the media since 2008”. Words that the 50-year-old artist made a point of explaining, later, in the columns of Vanity Fair : “I never drew the first. But I sometimes responded too sanguinely to the attacks. I couldn’t stand, for example, this label of ‘new French song’ behind which we tried to bring together people who didn’t had nothing to do with each other”.
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Benjamin Biolay vs Michel Fugain, act 55
If some thought the hatchet has since been buried… they were totally wrong. This Monday, April 17, in the columns of Telestar, Michel Fugain fired red balls again at Benjamin Biolay, but also at Julien Doré. “I criticize certain types of behavior when it is not compensated by a contribution made to our profession. Song is a major art, contrary to what Gainsbourg said”he dropped with our colleagues before continuing: “Commercialism is harmful to creation. Rearranging a title or redoing what has already been done is useless”.
New criticisms to which the main interested party was once again quick to respond. On his Instagram account, this Monday, April 18, the interpreter of “Your Legacy”took up an article by our colleagues from Here is who quoted Michel Fugain’s remarks about him. “That’s it, it’s completely devastated… And some meanwhile find it wise to push back the retirement age…”, he swung. No peace agreement seems close to being found.
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